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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Clinton, who recently 'reversed' her pro-TPP position, has already chosen two pro-TPP

Sanders supporters who don't trust Clinton's recent conversions on the Keystone XL pipeline and the Trans-Pacific Partnership won't be reassured by her appointment of former Virginia Senator and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to run her transition team. Salazar most recently was employed by the powerhouse D.C. influence peddler WilmerHale. From The Hill:

The choice of Salazar is a pretty good sign that as
expected we’ll be seeing the “revolving door” in full force in a Clinton
administration. As head of the transition he’ll have enormous influence
on who fills thousands of jobs at the White House and federal agencies.

As Senator Elizabeth Warren
has forcefully argued, one of the lessons of the Obama administration
is clear: “personnel is policy.” Who Clinton chooses to help her run the
White House may tell us more about her true priorities than promises
she made on the campaign trail.

After all, we’ve already
seen her choice of a vice president. Once Democrats prevail on Election
Day, we’ll have a pro-TPP, pro-Hyde Amendment Vice President. Tim Kaine
is the man that Clinton believes is the best person to lead the
country, should she for any reason be unable to fulfill the duties of
her office.

Maynard (Bob "Gilligan's Island" Denver) slyly flashes a nipple to the CBS eye while trying to talk his best buddy Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hick­man) into taking off all his clothes. Whoever said 1950s television was a vast waste­land obviously didn't know where to look.